Seed-corn hanger.



G. F. PHIPPS.

SEED CORN HANGER,

APPLIOATION FILEDDEU. ses, 1909. n

982,864. y A, Pmnwd1rfan.a1, 1911.

i ITED STATES PATENTV OFFICE.

CHARLES FRED PHIPPS, 0F TRIVOLI, ILLINOIS.

SEED-CORN HANGER.

specification of Letters raamt.

Patented Jan. 31, 1911.

.Application filed December 29, 1909. Serial No. 535,416.

To all whom 'it may concernf Be it known that I, CHARLES Fimo Piiirrs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trivoli, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Corn Hangers, of which the'following is a specification.

My invention relates to a seed corn hanger, used for drying or' maturing seed corn.

The principal vobject of iny invention is to provide a device of the above character, of such construction that the ears of corn carried thereby will be entirely separatori from eachother, thereb)v allowing a free circulation of air around each ea r, and also rendering it easy to identify each ear with the grains that may be taken therefrom for testing purposes.

A further Aobject of my invention is to provide a 'device of this kind which is coinposed of a number oi separate sections, on which the ears of corn are to be placed, said sections adapted to b e linked together to form a hanger ot' any desired length, and which, when uiilinked, may be' stored or 'shipped in a coii'ipiratively small space.

Other objects and theirl advantages will li'eeoine apparent as the nature of my invention is better understood from the following `description and accompanying drawings, in

whichn Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a hanger constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 i's airenlarged perspective view of one ot' the sections of the hanger,l

and AIfig. 23 is an enlarged detail.

Reference being had to the drawiiigs,it will he seen that the hanger is composed of a number -ot' sections linked together, the last or top section being provided with a D,-oiiiparatirely long loop 5, which is adapted to he placed over a nail or the like, by means of which the hanger is suspended above the floor ot the barn or corn crib.

.Xs most clearly shown in Fig. 2, each of the sections ot' the'hanger comprises a single piece of stout wire which is first bent double. and provided with a hook 6. The wire is their twisted, as indicated at 7, for the purpose of making the same rigid, and the remaining portions of. the wire are then bent outwardly and upwardly in opposite directions to form arms, on which the ears of corn to be matured are impaled, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. It will be noted that the portions of wire which form the hooks or loops 6 are spaced apart to periuit the said hooks to he slipped through one another as the sections are assembled, \vliere by the hook (3 of one section will engage the aruis 8 of the next section above on opposite sides of the twist vas shown in Fig. -3. Obviously this arrangement wlll prevent any possibility of the sections becoming aceidentally unlinked.

As shown in Fig. 1, the'hook 6 of each section is arranged atright angles to its arms 8, whereby when these sections are linked together, the arms will be arranged in four vertical rows, thus allowing the ears of corn to be easily placed thereon. The earsof corn are impaled on the arms 8 longitudinally, and oivingto the upward incline of said arms, any liability of the ears slipping .off is prevented.

Frein the' foregoing, it, will be seen that I provide a seed corn hanger which, while being extremely simple and inexpensive, will have great strength and durability, and will eil'ectually Serve the`purpose for which it is intended.

I claim:

l. A seed corn hanger, composed of 'a number of separate sections linked together, each section comprising a ,singleA piece of wire bent double and provided with a spaced hook, the remaining portions of thewire being twisted around each other several times,

and then bent outwardly and upwardly in opposite directions, and at right angles to said hook, the hooks of the severalsections l y adapted to be slipped through one another and to engage th arms of the next section above on opposite sides of its twisted`portion, thereby securely linking the several-sections together. `4

2. A seed corn hanger comprising a nuinbei' of separate sections linked.' together to forma hanger of any desired length, each section comprieinfr' a single piece of Wire l In testmon whereof I affix my signature having its eentall` portion bent upwardly in presence o two witnesses. to form a loop'and having its end extending CHARLES FRED PHIPPS diagonally outward and upward from the lower end of s'ad loop, said ends adapted to lVitnesses: have impaled thereon the ears of corn to be HENRIETLA PHIPPS, matured. R. F. GRAHAM. 

